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Where'd all the past updates go!?!?!?!? Right here.

September 2007:

As we hit the half-decade mark, I went back and realized how much has changed over the years. I went through hundreds of pictures, nearly the same amount of songs, and countless memories in order to produce a video tribute to TB through the years. And, what song would be better to do this with than our first hit, Rubber Duckie.

So, here it is: A 5 Year Rubber Duckie Retrospective, TB style.



Full download (23.5MB WMV)

??? - TrumpetBoredom - Music
Okay, I am so sick of you guys asking us for our music. So I'm giving in. Here it is. The music for the most requested song on TrumpetBoredom: The first trumpet part to The Legends of Zelda pg 1 and pg 2.

Happy now?

Byro on Ellen!
Here's the video! Part 1 (AVI 31 megs) and Part 2 (AVI 22 megs). Both require Divx. Part 1 has the F, part 2 does not.

¡¿¡ - TrumpetBoredom - I'm Back.. For now.
As for TB stuff... let's see what I can drag out of the archives.
People always ask me what happens at a typical recording session. And I feel this video pretty much describes it perfectly. It is a video of us playing "I Wanna Hold Your Hand." (4.6Mb, WMV format)
And pretty much everything that happens in this video happens during a TB recording session: I run around frantically setting everything up, Joe plays some out of place high notes to warm up, CW figures out his baseline, we argue over something, figure out where we are going to come in, count off, Byro leans up against the door because he is bored with his part, stop because someone is not prepared, and then record the greatest work ever in one take. That's TB for ya, right there. Not pictured: Joe's dogs, our mass audience of attractive women in the background screaming out our names, us going into a 9 minute rock-out where we destroy our instruments and the crowd goes wild!!! That does usually happen, though.

Sometime in the Past - TrumpetBoredom - Big Update
Finally, so you people can fill your computers with musical goodness, I present you one of the coolest things at Disneyland: The Disneyland Main Street Dixieland Piano Player. Most people aren't away such a thing at Disneyland exists, but it is one of my favorite stomping grounds, especially when the piano player plays awesome songs like this... "Grim Grinning Ghosts" (4Mb WMV). Alan, you rock. Consider this your internet debut.

Too cheap to pay for the Gordon Goodwin CDs? Don't live near LA and have never seen them live? As always, I have the hookups, care of New Trier Jazz Festival and their jazz program. Check it out. (85 minute Real Media Stream). If anyone can grab the full file and not the stream and let me know how to get it, I'd love them for it.

Update - TrumpetBoredom - Spam
I got this in my e-mail today... check it out.
Hello fellow brass player,

Every brass player knows how physically demanding the profession can be. Not only must you play artistically but you must have the strength and endurance to play high notes and play them in tune!
I'm a trumpet player and have come upon a very exciting technology used to increase strength and endurance.
The product is called Lifewave Energy Patches and it contains no drugs. It simply tells your body to burn fat for cellular energy in a way that improves your strength and endurance.
Let me tell you about my story. I'm a bit of a fitness buff as well as an amateur trumpet player. I tried the patches at the gym and have improved my maximum bench press from 230 lbs once to being able to push 270 lbs 5 times. In checking out the patches I made an interesting discovery --- not only do they work for strength conditioning but they also greatly helped my trumpet playing. As an experiment, I put a set of patches on then picked up my trumpet and was able to immediately play very fast chromatic scales. My high register felt much stronger but boy were my fingers working FAST. As an amateur I don't get gigs too often but I certainly can't wait to wear them on a gig.
These patches have been through several double blind clinical studies and the athletes that tested them reported gains of up to 40% in strength and endurance. If this technology can do this for athletes imagine what it can do for brass playing!

I think I might have to try this stuff out.

What is TrumpetBoredom?
This is the first question people ask me when they hear about this site. What exactly do you do with 4 trumpets and a bari sax? Well, this is how the process works:
1. Someone finds a tune to play. 2. I send the tune to Joe. 3. Joe decides if it would work, and how. Then he writes it out. 4. Then nothing happens for 3 months. 5. On the day of the recording session, we print out the parts, listen to it through on Finale, and record the song in one take. And that's all there is to it. Every recording is live, usually on the first take.

So what kind of songs do we play? Well, I made 2 long files to give you an example. Check them out!